religion@home? About religious internet use. A study on new forms of contemporary religiosity.

宗教@家？

• 批准号: 289752855
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Anna Neumaier
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien (CERES)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Publication Grants
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-31 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/289752855?language=en
• 关键词: religion; home; About; religious; internet

Contemporary developments of religion have been a hotly debated topic within the social and cultural sciences in the last decades. However, compared to their relevance for everyday life, media have played a minor role within research on this field. The present study explores this research area by investigating religious online spaces and asking for their significance for religious believing and belonging. Building on approaches from the field of history and sociology of religion as well as media studies, it focuses on Christian online boards (of German language), including qualitative interviews with the respective users as well as quantitative survey data.Two levels of findings can be described. First, four patterns of religious Internet use were elaborated, two of them describing online use as different forms of substitutes for traditional religious affiliation, the other two as variations of supplementing local membership. However, all four pattern share a common characteristic: the main reason for Internet use is not found within any assets of the medium, but in problems and conflicts with the local parish or church in general, as those "narrations of offline deficiencies" are a leitmotif within the interview material. Therefore, Internet use may be understood on a second level as a strategical reaction to any shortcomings of religious offline infrastructure. Moreover, the study was able to show that individual Internet use expresses not so much the need for religious transformation or changing orientations, but is taken up to strengthen existing, traditional religious beliefs which have been "in the users' perspective" exposed to several threats beforehand. This "re-stabilization" of individual religiosity online is realized by the users via a) re-embedding within a religious community online and thereby collectively legitimizing their beliefs, and b) gaining religious knowledge by discussing religionrelated topics online, as well as gaining skills to defend their beliefs. In this way, those users eventually develop a quite autonomous religious identity, largely independent of local infrastructures.Findings may not be limited to the field of religion in the Internet, but are likewise discussed with regard to broader debates on contemporary religion and religiosity, the transformation of religious communities and autonomy of religious identities. Irrespective of the specific media use, it becomes clear that leaving traditional religious structures seems inevitable for the users, yet the religious optionality of belonging and believing following from that is not regarded as possibility, but as threat. Here, web spaces become an important alternative venue, and will have lasting effects on the religious landscape as a whole.

在过去的几十年里，宗教的当代发展一直是社会和文化科学中的一个热门话题。然而，与日常生活的相关性相比，媒体在这一领域的研究中发挥了次要作用。本研究通过调查宗教在线空间并询问其对宗教信仰和归属感的意义来探索这一研究领域。本研究以历史学、宗教社会学和媒体研究领域的方法为基础，重点关注基督教在线论坛（德语），包括对相关用户的定性访谈以及定量调查数据。首先，阐述了宗教使用互联网的四种模式，其中两种将在线使用描述为传统宗教信仰的不同形式的替代品，另外两种描述为补充当地成员的变化。然而，所有四种模式都有一个共同的特点：使用互联网的主要原因不是媒体的任何资产，而是与当地教区或教会的问题和冲突，因为这些“离线缺陷的叙述”是采访材料中的主旋律。因此，在第二个层面上，互联网的使用可以被理解为对宗教离线基础设施的任何缺陷的战略反应。此外，这项研究还表明，个人使用互联网并不意味着需要宗教转变或改变方向，而是为了加强现有的传统宗教信仰，这些信仰“从用户的角度来看”事先受到了一些威胁。个人宗教信仰的这种“重新稳定”是由用户通过以下方式实现的：a）重新嵌入在线宗教社区，从而集体地使他们的信仰合法化，以及B）通过在线讨论宗教相关话题获得宗教知识，以及获得捍卫其信仰的技能。这样，这些用户最终形成了一个相当自主的宗教身份，基本上独立于当地的基础设施，调查结果可能不仅限于互联网上的宗教领域，但也讨论了更广泛的辩论，当代宗教和宗教信仰，宗教社区的转变和宗教身份的自主性。无论具体的媒体使用，很明显，离开传统的宗教结构似乎是不可避免的用户，但宗教归属和信仰的选择，从这一点不被视为可能性，而是一种威胁。在这里，网络空间成为一个重要的替代场所，并将对整个宗教景观产生持久的影响。